At a time when household subscriptions are multiplying between streaming services, online tools or music platforms, the monthly budget allocated to digital can reach new heights. Fortunately, there are solutions to reduce the bill, starting with account sharing.
€17.99/month for a Netflix Premium account, €6.99/month for an Amazon Prime account (€9.99/month by adding the Warner Pass), €8.99/month for Disney+, €27.99 /month for Canal+… Today, the monthly streaming budget of a user can reach astronomical sums, especially if one wants to see everything.
And again, it’s only VOD. Add to that subscriptions to music platforms like Deezer or Spotify, not to mention offers dedicated to utilities like Office 365, Canva or the Adobe Suite and you get a digital budget that easily exceeds €100 per month.
A skyrocketing digital budget
In addition, recent changes made by streaming services to combat account sharing, Netflix in the lead, further increase household monthly payments. As you know, since May 24, 2023, account sharing on Netflix has officially ended in France. From now on, you will have to go to the checkout to allow another out-of-home user to take advantage of your account.
Thus, you must add to your monthly bill between €3.99 and €5.99 per person and depending on your type of subscription. To give you an idea, a subscriber to the Premium plan will have to pay exactly €29.97 per month to add two additional members (the maximum allowed) against €17.99 previously. Something to make you want to leave Netflix for sure.
This French site has found the solution
However, there is another practical solution that is relatively unknown to the general public: the French platform Spliiit. Founded in 2019 by Jonathan Lalinec, Brice Vincent and Guillaume Lochard, the service has a very simple objective: to allow individuals to share its service subscriptions while saving money.
“The idea with Spliiit was to transpose the carpooling model popularized by services like BlaBlaCar on all multi-account and multi-user digital subscriptions“, explains Guillaume Lochard, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of the platform, to Phonandroid during an interview.
Share your streaming/software account to save money
In 2023, this type of service offers no less than 230 referenced services in Europe and all over the world. Thus, there are many VOD services such as Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video or Canal+, but also subscriptions related to music, computer security, video games, utility software, e-commerce or even goods. -being and cloud storage services.
Today, Spliiit has 800,000 subscribers and over 142,000 active subscriptions. According to Guillaume Lochard, sharing streaming, audio and video game subscriptions makes it possible to achieve on average 300 € savings per year (even up to €600 for large consumers).
Share as holder or become co-subscriber
But how does it work? It’s very simple actually. You have two options: either you decide to share your account with other users of the platform (or with those around you) or to become a co-subscriber of a user’s account. Be careful however, depending on the service chosen, the method differs as a holder. Thus, we can either:
- link an existing account to another user on services that allow it (such as Amazon Prime or Spotify)
- Share your login password with additional subscribers
Regarding the second point, sharing your password with a user can raise some legitimate concerns. This is why Spliiit has established a confidence index which testifies to the reliability, seriousness and solvency of a user via a score set between 0 and 100.
The service interface has the merit of being clear and completely transparent. From the outset, we know how much we will save by sharing our account, and how much we will pay by choosing to subscribe to a user’s account.
An example for a Netflix Premium account
Let’s take an example. As said above, a Netflix Premium account now costs €29.97 per month after adding two additional members. However, by choosing to offer its pitches via this platform, you will be able to recover € 19.98 per monthwhich represents a great saving over the year of €239.76 !
For co-subscribers, this amounts to paying a Premium subscription at only €10.84. It should also be noted that each member will have their own personal identifier and profile to access Netflix.
As Guillaume Lochard explains, the platform takes a commission of 5% of the monthly amount to which are added 35 cents (no costs for private sharing). This levy allows, in his words “to ensure equity between the owner of the account and the subscriber” and especially prevent the account holder from making a profit.
Each month, we receive the sums won on our kitty. You are then free to get the money back to your account via a bank transfer or to capitalize on it to subscribe to other services. Importantly, as an account owner, you will need to give 30 days notice before deleting your offer. A sine qua num condition to allow time for subscribers to find an emergency solution. As a co-subscriber, however, you are free to terminate your subscription whenever you want.
Be careful though, not everything is rosy in the world of sharing, especially with certain offers stamped “Family”. Like Spotify Family or iCloud Family, these formulas allow only one user modification per year. In other words, if an account holder decides to discontinue their subscription, subscribers will not be able to join other accounts immediately shared. To sum up, it is better in these specific cases to be the owner of the account to avoid this kind of inconvenience.
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An anti-piracy tool
According to Guillaume Lochard, nearly 37% of Spliiit customers say they would do without certain services without the platform. 29% believe that they would access this content and services illegally without the platform. She actually presents itself as an anti-piracy solutiona quality recognized by ARCOM.
As for publishers and services, they have come to understand the interest of such a system. Because, Spliiit has an extremely low churn rate, around 1% per month against 6 to 7% on average on the platforms. Logic: by sharing their account, owners save money, which encourages them to keep their subscription.
